A Systematic Review on Cloud Storage Mechanisms Concerning e-Healthcare Systems

Sensors (Basel). 2020 Sep 21;20(18):5392. doi: 10.3390/s20185392.

Abstract

As the expenses of medical care administrations rise and medical services experts are becoming rare, it is up to medical services organizations and institutes to consider the implementation of medical Health Information Technology (HIT) innovation frameworks. HIT permits health associations to smooth out their considerable cycles and offer types of assistance in a more productive and financially savvy way. With the rise of Cloud Storage Computing (CSC), an enormous number of associations and undertakings have moved their healthcare data sources to distributed storage. As the information can be mentioned whenever universally, the accessibility of information becomes an urgent need. Nonetheless, outages in cloud storage essentially influence the accessibility level. Like the other basic variables of cloud storage (e.g., reliability quality, performance, security, and protection), availability also directly impacts the data in cloud storage for e-Healthcare systems. In this paper, we systematically review cloud storage mechanisms concerning the healthcare environment. Additionally, in this paper, the state-of-the-art cloud storage mechanisms are critically reviewed for e-Healthcare systems based on their characteristics. In short, this paper summarizes existing literature based on cloud storage and its impact on healthcare, and it likewise helps researchers, medical specialists, and organizations with a solid foundation for future studies in the healthcare environment.

Keywords: availability; cloud computing; cloud storage; deduplication; e-Healthcare; erasure coding; replication.

Publication types

  • Systematic Review

MeSH terms

  • Cloud Computing*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Telemedicine*